Subject: Re: The Affordability Tour Kicks Off
... it's politically unpopular to take steps that would result in ten million plus people losing their jobs.


Seems we have reached an impasse. You hold that 7% of the workforce has the political juice to make their jobs inviolate, even though they contribute nothing to patient care. I hold that, if the 80% of the workforce who are paying for those unproductive jobs knew how their health care dollars are being wasted, the fact that they outnumber the paper shufflers more than 10 to 1 would make the elimination of that "administrative overhead" a political imperative.

I have enjoyed this discussion. Nice to know I can still hold my own in a debate.

Steve